Tag: heart money

What’s in your wallet? Or, what do your bank records say about you?

How you manage money is a microcosm of how you live your life, what things are most important to you, and most importantly, where your heart is.

How you use your debit card, credit card(s), or how you spend cash (which is becoming a rare monetary form of exchange these days), is a clear indicator of where your priorities are.

What’s in your wallet?

What does the way you spend money say about you?

Within minutes you can learn so much about a person by looking at their bank statement. Your spending, saving, and transferring of money displays a clear map of those things which are most important to you.

Your attention and your energies are focused on those things which you spend the most money on.

Often, there is a correlation between where (or how) you spend your money and how you spend your time throughout a given day, week, month, or year.

Time and Money

You want more time and money to do the things you want to do, and how you’re managing your time and money, speaks volumes about how you live your life and what kind of a person you are.

There’s a good chance you don’t want to take a close look at how you spend your time and money, making reviewing the intimate details of your calendar and bank accounts something completely undesirable.

Examining how you spend your time and money can actually be a huge step in your personal growth matrix.

You know what kind of person you think you are, how you’d like to be perceived by others, and you can take steps to bring your heart, bank account, and calendar in line with the things you’d like to be more associated with. But it starts with taking a close look at your reflection in the mirrors of how you spend your time and money today.

Life is a balancing act and balancing your checkbook (bank account) and how you spend your day(s) can be a daunting task, but it can also empower you to make the changes necessary to maximize your efforts throughout the time that you have left on this planet.

Once you have an accurate accounting of how you spend your time and money, you can go about making changes and spending time and money on things that make you feel better, which are congruent with the kind of person you would like to be or want others to believe you are.

If you spend hours in front of the TV, video game console, surfing the web, interacting with social media, hanging with friends, and/or numbing yourself to the stresses of life (via any manner you might choose), do these activities help you achieve your highest and best?

Could those hours be spent in better ways which are congruent with the life you’d like to lead?

What if you associated a monetary hourly rate to your hours not being spent being paid by someone else. How much is your time worth to you? Even if you only associated your hourly rate to how much someone else would pay you (which is likely far less than what you’re worth), what is the value of those lost hours which can never be recaptured?

If you spend more than a reasonable percentage of your monthly income on expenses, such as housing, utilities, insurance, car payments, leaving little left over for investment(s) and quality of life, it might be time for a change.

Not growing and changing leads to stagnation and degradation, accepting a life of mediocrity, declining health, depression and misery, which may encourage one to seek methods to waste away one’s life in numbness in an effort to just make it through another day.

Life expansion and extension are all about growth and change, leading to living a better life, your best life, with increased health, wealth, happiness, and joy.

What are people on the move doing to live a better life?

The people I find myself working with are the shakers and movers in society, yet while they are being highly successful at having an impact in the world we share with them, they are also taking the time to focus on the intimate details of their life. In doing so, I believe (and so do they) they gain far more meaning and enjoyment from all life has to offer.

What are some of the things these influential people doing to increase their efficacy and quality of life?

I find them spending time looking inside, digging up their pasts, exorcising their personal demons, finding new ways to increase love exponentially in their lives and decreasing (or eliminating) the negative influences that may loom in the areas surrounding their lives.

While that is somewhat vague, I find many of them seeing materialism from a different perspective and taking action to prevent materialism from blocking their efficacy, and you might like to give it a go, too.

They find themselves re-thinking their connection with material things. It’s as if, at some point, something clicks inside them and they see the high value of the things most valued by the world as less meaningful, and these material things lose their sheen when they no longer offer any degree of satisfaction. In some cases, a loathing emerges as they see these high fashion items as an immense con game. It doesn’t mean they stop playing the game altogether, but they are able to remove the false emotional connection to their former materialism.

If you want to see where someone’s heart is, take a look at where their money goes.

These influential people who are looking for deeper meaning in life are using their resources, including their financial resources for doing or promoting the greater good in the world. Of course, they all have their particular flavor, and no two philanthropists hearts are the same, therefore these individuals are able to impact the world independently in an invisible collectivity that really does make huge differences in the world we share with them.

You, too, could take an active part

In fact in many ways I am endeared to that percentage of the 99% who are sacrificing to contribute to a better world, who you think wouldn’t be able to afford it. One statistic that comes to mind is the comparison between the giving of the WalMart owners, versus the giving of the employees of WalMart who are often barely getting by. The low-remunerated employees out-give their employer 100%.

You can see these people have heart and they’re putting their money where their heart is and they are making a difference. Even though their contribution may individually be small, say ten to a hundred dollars a month, collectively they have a profound impact, while it appears the owners could care less.

Unfortunately, you do seem to find the most wealthy one percent of the world’s population not giving a rat’s care about the rest of the world which is stuffing money in their pockets 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For many of these people nothing matters more than the money they can glean from the masses, and you find them frolicking in lavish lifestyles that some of us (maybe even you) desire to mimic, because don’t we all want a better life?

But is this the definition of a better life?

The people who I find myself working with see their monetary health as a key component in their enjoyment of life and feel like it is the energy which fuels their ability to have a greater impact on the world. You can tell by what they do with it, and they are not enslaved by materialism, which would only take the energy and put it back in the pockets of the one percent.

What are you doing with your resources?

You can use your resources to make the world a better place.

If your knee-jerk reaction is to insist that you do not have the money, take another look at people with so much less than you, who are taking action, giving a portion of their resources, including money and time to help make the world a better place.